word of note, i have busybox installed.
I have around 300 apps on my phone, as i have a nice, big SD card. due to several re-flashes i have the apps as .apk files
but the phone itself only has 2 gigs or so of space for apps.. not enough >.>
i tried to do :
busybox install *.apk /data/app
but that filled the phone memory very quickly.
I need to install them directly to SDcard.
Where? i moved an app to SD manually and i don't see it on the SD anywhere.
someone give me a hand?
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Does anyone have a list of things safe to remove from this rom yet? I would like to clear some more cpu space if possible
Note: I'm running with MoDaCo v1.1 ROM and setup SD card for Apps2SD.
If you have your SD card setup for Apps2SD then you can just move many of the apps from /system/app to system/sd/app. They will still be available if you ever want them, easier to move back to the main on-board storage if you need too. The apps on your sd card will launch a little slower, but once launched seem to be just fine. I moved the following to the /system/sd/app:
HtcFootprints*
HtcRingtone*
HtcTwitter*
IM*
Sprint_NFL
Sprint_Navigator*
Sprint_Nscar*
Sprint_TV*
Stock*
amazonmp3*
com.htc.Stock*
com.htc.Twitter*
I also moved from the /system/sd/app to the /system/app:
com.google.android.voicesearch.apk
That fixed the google voicesearch, which I do use sometimes.
I recently bought ShadowGun and N.O.V.A 2 from Google Play and discovered that my SD card didn't have enough room with all of my music (10+ GB) and misc. other stuff, and I had around 6 GB of extra space on my internal memory, so I figured this out.\
Pre-requisites:
Plenty of space on your internal memory
Root access
Note: This has only been tested with SD card data that was already downloaded, but you should be able to download directly to internal memory. Also, this has only been tested on my Droid X running MIUI.
Step 1.
First, find your game's data location. ShadowGun's is at
Code:
/sdcard/Android/data/com.madfingergames.shadowgun
and N.O.V.A 2's is at
Code:
/sdcard/gameloft/games/GloftN2HM
Step 2.
Next, create the new folders in /data/data and /data/local for the Market cache. (Without this, the Market gives a "insufficient storage" error.)
Code:
adb shell
su
mkdir /data/data/ShadowGun
mkdir /data/data/GloftN2HM
mkdir /data/local/cache
Step 3.
If you haven't downloaded the game's data yet, skip this step.
If it's already on your SD card, then move the data from the folders we found before to the folders you just created.
Code:
mv /sdcard/Android/data/com.madfingergames.shadowgun/* /data/data/ShadowGun/
mv /sdcard/gameloft/games/GloftN2HM/* /data/data/GloftN2HM/
Step 4.
Finally, copy the following commands into a shell script:
Code:
mount -o bind /data/data/ShadowGun /sdcard/Android/data/com.madfingergames.shadowgun
mount -o bind /data/data/GloftN2HM /sdcard/gameloft/games/GloftN2HM
mount -o bind /data/local/cache /data/data/com.android.vending/cache
If other apps are crashing with insufficient storage errors, just link them all to /data/local/cache.
You can find whatever way you want to run this script every time you boot, but the easiest way is to download Script Manager from Google Play and set it to use su and to run at boot.
Step 5.
For those who haven't downloaded the SD data yet, download it and see if it takes up any more space on your SD card. I haven't tried it before, so no guarantees.
Uninstalling:
To uninstall, just move files back to SD card, disable script running at boot, and reboot.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR PHONE BLOWS UP, YOUR DOG GETS WORMS, OR WW3 STARTS. Thank you.
Can I do this with GPS iGO data (about 400 MB)?
worked on my xperia U! tried dead trigger game
The files will be at internal memory but also show at sd like they are there.. for exemple if we delete it on sd it will delet the file in internal memory!
Going to try with more games
Why is good do this?
i did the factory reset and i have all games on my SD like FIFA 12 etc.
is it possible to do it that way?
+ i am little mixed up with the code, where should i do it?
i can create folders and move data through file managers but not sure about the mount and bind action.
i downloaded scrip manager and console was showing Shell...is it the one i should write the commands as mentioned?
The question is pretty straightforward. Whenever you download an app from the market, it gets downloaded on to the internal memory 1st & then gets installed. If I've set the setInstallLocation to 2 via adb, it gets installed to sd. The problem here is that even though the app is installed directly to sd, its initially downloaded onto internal memory. My internal memory is low & doesn't allow me to download huge apps. I had to install games like Nova by downloading apks from the net using Opera browser & then install it. I can't do this for Market apps however. So, how do I make an app to download as well as install on sd?
Hi is it possible to install apps to external SD card in Android 4.2.2+ any more? I'm sure I remember I used to be able to do this in older versions of android.
I tried the ADB method:
adb shell pm set-install-location 2
but I get an error message saying:
"insufficient storage available"
I tried a whole bunch of apps including Apps2SD, Link2SD, etc, but these all say that because I have an emulated internal SD card that is shared with the OS I can't move my apps. I don't really understand this as I have a 32GB external SD card in my system.
All apps like Link2SD do is open up the application manager anyway, where in the past you had the option to stop the running app and move it to SD. You couldn't do this with all of them, but you could do it with most.
Is there any way around this? I'm surprised not more people would like to move/install their apps to their external SD card.. Many phones are stupidly limited in the amount of internal storage they have, even some of the most expensive ones.
jebus197 said:
Hi is it possible to install apps to external SD card in Android 4.2.2+ any more? I'm sure I remember I used to be able to do this in older versions of android.
I tried the ADB method:
adb shell pm set-install-location 2
but I get an error message saying:
"insufficient storage available"
I tried a whole bunch of apps including Apps2SD, Link2SD, etc, but these all say that because I have an emulated internal SD card that is shared with the OS I can't move my apps. I don't really understand this as I have a 32GB external SD card in my system.
All apps like Link2SD do is open up the application manager anyway, where in the past you had the option to stop the running app and move it to SD. You couldn't do this with all of them, but you could do it with most.
Is there any way around this? I'm surprised not more people would like to move/install their apps to their external SD card.. Many phones are stupidly limited in the amount of internal storage they have, even some of the most expensive ones.
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I use kitkat carbon custom rom for my xperia arc s. I use link2sd before, and there is no problem with app install on the external sdcard. But now I use mount2sd. For me it's more simple and I don't have to open link2sd and click on app then create link, it's auto by mount2sd. But I use "dirty" method to install link2sd and mount2sd on my phone :laugh: . If you se link2sd, maybe you can try it.
*I sorry, I don't know adb method. I'm just noob. And sorry for my bad english*
Yeah same question for me. What program to use. Thankxs for it. Hugz
Just 4 2 Day
Maybe you should try Mount2SD. IMHO, I think there is possibilities install apps to ext sdcard with this app as long as your phone rooted. Try with this instruction originally from Mount2SD.
*Sorry, I'm just noob. And sorry for my bad english*
if your phone is rooted use luckypatcher
To start off, I have a Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) SM-J320FN. I've rooted it, but I'm not sure whether that is relevant to the thread or not. Anyways, the problem I have is I want to move EVERY SINGLE FILE off of an app I downloaded off of google play and move it into my SD card. I've downloaded Max Payne Mobile (for nostalgia,) which in turn (due to the J3's pathetic 8gb internal storage) caused me to delete most of my apps that I already had, strange thing is I've moved those apps to my SD card using AppMgr III (or App2SD) and I wonder why it asked it to delete something in my SD card so that it can install on my internal storage. I download and installed Max Payne, then I try to move it to my SD card using AppMgr III and it says that only 25 mb (ish) of the game can be moved to the SD card, despite the game being well over 1 gigabyte.
So I need to know how I can either move ALL my app files into the SD card or set google play to install directly to the SD card (I've heard that you can do it using Terminal Emulator by giving it SuperUser and typing something along the lines of PM set_main_storage2, I've tried that but it never worked)
Thanks in advance for your help. :good:
Hey man, if you figure out how to download on SD Card hit me up, although mine is formatted as internal.